Ireland's AI Reckoning: TikTok Cuts 300 Dublin Jobs as €900m Pours Into Data Centres

TikTok has offered termination agreements to around 300 staff in Ireland after a consultation process, with the company citing plans to advance "the latest technological innovations" — corporate code for replacing human content moderators with AI. The affected roles sit primarily in trust and safety, the very function that made Dublin a European hub for platform governance. Staff must choose between enhanced redundancy packages or statutory minimum, with some workers reporting...